After Elashia stopped singing, the boiling fighting spirit in Cecilia's body finally calmed down after a long while.
"Your Majesty... this... isn't a normal battle technique at all..."
Cecilia, who had recovered from her overwhelming fighting spirit, complained.
[Battle Techniques], as the name suggests, are combat skills, so normal [Battle Techniques] are all destructive skills. Elashia's [Courage Anthem] gave Cecilia a feeling that was quite incompatible with normal battle techniques.
"No, you know, warriors are different from mages. Warriors' talents and [Battle Techniques] are decisively influenced by heredity."
Candice walked over from the other side with Sophia, saying to Cecilia.
Hearing Elashia's inspiring song from afar, Candice immediately understood what had happened.
After hearing Elashia's uplifting song, she immediately thought of her Imperial Sister.
The first battle technique Alexandra awakened was called [Decadent Magic Sound].
This battle technique only worked on non-human units. Whenever the Iron Empire went to war with demons, as long as her Imperial Sister went up and used her battle technique, the battle situation would immediately change dramatically.
The demons who heard her song would immediately become weak.
Although this skill had the opposite effect from Elashia's awakened inspiring skill, they were essentially the same in nature.
Candice continued:
"Not one warrior in our family has awakened normal destructive skills—they're all like this."
Cecilia thought about it and felt that made sense.
As royalty, awakening destructive skills for battlefield combat wouldn't have much meaning anyway.
Elashia smiled and said:
"Alright, it's getting late, let's hurry up and prepare for treatment!"
Looking at the sky that had already turned almost completely dark, everyone knew it was late.
As green light flashed overhead, another casting of [Dead Wood Comes to Life] was completed.
......
Walking on the road back to the palace, Candice asked Elashia in confusion:
"Your Majesty, I remember you're a mage, aren't you? Why would you awaken [Battle Techniques]?"
There weren't no people in this world who could cultivate both magic and martial arts, but the result of dual cultivation often meant being unable to go far on either path.
So in Candice's lifetime, except for her Imperial Sister, she had never seen even one other powerful dual cultivator.
When she had asked her Imperial Sister how she managed dual cultivation, her Imperial Sister had said to her quite impatiently:
"You wouldn't understand even if I told you."
This made Candice so angry she didn't speak to her for several days.
However, when Elashia faced her question, she just smiled awkwardly.
How would I know? You'd have to ask the system!
So Elashia just scratched her head with an awkward smile and said:
"Well... actually I'm not too clear about it either."
Candice was somewhat speechless.
Great, now her Imperial Sister said to her—"You wouldn't understand anyway."
Her niece said to her—"I don't know either."
If she didn't know that her Imperial Sister and Elashia had only met once, Candice would even suspect she was being played by this mother-daughter pair.
Not knowing why Elashia would answer her this way, in any case it seemed getting an answer to this question from Elashia was unlikely.
Candice sighed somewhat helplessly.
She knew Elashia wouldn't lie to her. Even if Elashia really did lie to her in some situations, Elashia couldn't possibly be harmful to her. But thinking that all three surviving members of the Iron family except herself could achieve dual cultivation made her feel isolated.
Seeing that Candice's mood seemed somewhat low, Elashia quickly said:
"Aunt doesn't need to feel bad about this, after all, Aunt's real battlefield isn't here! Without Aunt, Elasia couldn't function at all! This is Aunt's real battlefield!"
Seeing Elashia anxiously comforting her, Candice smiled, and the trace of gloom in her heart quickly dissipated.
Candice again reached out her slender jade hand to stroke Elashia's small pink head, a smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I know."
During her time in the Iron Empire, she often felt she was irrelevant.
Whether during the old Iron Emperor's reign or her Imperial Sister's reign.
During the old emperor's reign, no one cared about her at all.
People's attention was all on that prodigiously talented Imperial Sister, and even Father Emperor didn't care about her one bit.
Although she also worked extremely hard and was quite outstanding as a princess.
But compared to that monster of an Imperial Sister, she was really far inferior.
Once, the old Iron Emperor arranged for the two sisters to manage two territories that had just suffered devastating attacks from demon invasions.
When Candice was satisfied that the territory she managed had quickly revived under her leadership and successfully held firm during subsequent demon incursions, that monster Alexandra had already led the soldiers from her territory directly out of the city and completely annihilated the large number of invading demons...
Then, Alexandra actually rode the momentum and led her subordinate soldiers directly into demon territory. After destroying several demon settlements with extremely minor losses, she actually charged directly into the demon capital, which was currently empty of troops, fought her way in and out seven times, and finally returned triumphantly with countless spoils of war...
She remembered that incident particularly, particularly clearly—almost after that incident, she never again had thoughts of inheriting the Iron Empire's throne...
After Alexandra's coup was completed, she felt even more irrelevant.
In governing the country, Alexandra could handle national affairs extremely easily. The already powerful Iron Empire developed extremely rapidly under her rule. In just a few years, the Iron Empire solved the problem of basic needs, and the efficiency of national operations also greatly increased. Her achievements were almost the most magnificent since the Iron Empire's founding.
The people of the Iron Empire probably all thought Alexandra was a diligent empress.
But Candice, who spent every day with her, knew very clearly—Alexandra wasn't diligent at all.
All her achievements came entirely from her monster-like talent and abilities!
This was true politically, and even more so militarily!
After she came to power, the demons never again successfully broke through the Iron Empire's northern borders, and almost every time the demons retreated, they would be completely annihilated by the Iron Empire's pursuit.
Over time, the demons almost didn't dare invade the Iron Empire anymore.
As for personal combat power, this Imperial Sister was even more monstrously talented to an unimaginable degree—she not only dual cultivated magic and martial arts, but had reached the pinnacle in both!
Candice, who focused on studying magic, didn't even have half the magical strength of the dual-cultivating Alexandra!
So in the Iron Empire, she often had this feeling—whether I'm here or not doesn't matter, since Imperial Sister has already arranged everything.
For Candice, what was truly frightening wasn't hardship and danger, but no one needing her.
This was also why that sentence—"Please, I only have you to trust!"—when Elashia first met her had such devastating power over her.
For so many years, this was also the first time she had experienced the feeling of being so needed by someone else.
Gentle moonlight scattered on the earth. Looking at Elashia, who showed a pure smile because she was no longer troubled by this matter, Candice felt her heart was healed in an instant...